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part of their yearly activities. The group 
will maintain close liaison with 
international standards organizations, 
such as the Committee for Earth 
Observation Satellites (CEOS), the 
Consultative Committee for Space Data 
Systems (CCSDS) and the NASA Catalog 
Interoperability Working Group. 
Interesting developments, research results 
and findings will be reported in a series of 
meetings leading to the ISPRS Congress in 
1996. Proposed meeting times should be 
consistent with some scheduled 
conferences and workshops such as: 
Presentation of a follow-up paper of 
ISPRS Commission II Symposium to be 
held in Ottawa, Canada from June 6 - 10, 
1994. 
Organizing and presenting a workshop 
prior to the opening of the Commission II 
Symposium in Ottawa, Canada in June of 
1994. 
Business Meeting to be held at the 
International Symposium on Data 
Handling, Edinburgh, Scotland. 
Attendance at the ASPRS/ACM Annual 
Convention in the United States. 
WG II/4 - "Systems for the Processing of 
Radar Data" 
by Chairman: Dr. Robert O'Neil 
(Canada) 
Co-Chairman: Dr. Hiroshi Kimura 
(Japan) 
Secretary: Dr. Marc D'Iorio 
(Canada) 
WG Members: 46 
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Terms of Reference 
*« development of methodologies to 
process, analyze and interpret 
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 
imagery. 
e validation of applications of imagery 
acquired by space-borne instruments 
such as ALMAZ, ERS-1, JERS-1, 
RAOARSAT, ERS-2, and ENVSAT 
e evaluation of SAR interferometric 
techniques for elevation 
determination. 
e prepare and publish sample data set 
with various scene types for the 
evaluation of SAR analysis algorithms. 
Working Group II/A Accomplishments 
May 1993 - working group assembled by 
invitations sent to international 
community active in SAR data analysis 
field. 
August 1993 - informal meeting held of 
members attending the IGRSS'93 Tokyo, 
Japan. 
October 1993 - solicited abstracts and 
planned sessions on SAR data analysis at 
the ISPRS Commission II Symposium 
during June, 1994 in Ottawa, Canada. 
Working Group II/4 News 
* Definition of the CD-ROM data set is 
underway. Research groups world 
wide will be invited to contribute 
sample digital SAR scenes acquired 
with various SAR instruments and 
processors. 
* A meeting of the Working Group is 
being planned to coincide with the 
ISPRS Commission II Symposium June 
1994 in Ottawa.